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- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950 Author:Aldo Musacchio Publication:Business History Review 82, no. 3 (fall 2008): 445-473 Abstract This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
time-consuming, a lack of information has hampered the oversight process, and institutional investors have been slow to recognize the power their votes could wield. However, as we have seen, the corporate... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
weaker evidence that a simplified plan would have strong appeal to consumers or change their healthcare choices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45349 August 2013 Academy of Management Journal Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora, revealed how the country's most respected financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then leaked to their best clients. We show that after large... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
role of financial intermediaries. In the private equity setting, institutional investors are increasingly eschewing intermediaries in favor of direct investments. To understand the trade-offs in this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
on the dynamics of one specific context. But the conflicting findings from past studies suggest that we may want to go beyond the scope of one industry or country to identify broader trends that may be missed in too narrow a scope. Moreover, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
nonetheless offer a host of principles (the Reverend Louis Sullivan's Global Sullivan Principles), management standards (the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability's AccountAbility 1000), best practice guidelines (the OECD... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
public, selling shares to individual and institutional investors," says Lerner. Critics complain that buyout firms suck out profits rather than improve the firms they acquire, making these companies weakened goods when the IPO is... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
2004-2007. Results show that firms that are more environmentally damaging, particularly those in countries where they are more exposed to scrutiny and global norms, are less likely to engage in selective disclosure. We discuss contributions to the literature that spans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
Editor's note: The economy of Greece is in the depths of despair—a fitting topic for a Greek tragedy. As investor Wilbur Ross (HBS MBA 1961) has poignantly put it, "The country that brought us democracy may now take itself into... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
capital from the outside. It's been coming down tremendously," he said. "And capital is very expensive, on average, the spread is 700 basis points," he said. Investors have also grown weary of putting money into supposedly... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
(that total half the value of the U.S. market). "On the trading level," says Seifert, " we need a liquidity pool that gives us low-cost, cross-border access. To accomplish this, we are merging institutions and employing a... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
federal court in New York City. Argentina categorically refused to negotiate with investors and halted payments to any creditor that rejected its offer. Investors who agreed to the exchange offer received... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
likely to expose their bank to higher risk levels when regulation protects the bank against default. Managerial equity incentives may, therefore, serve as a risk-reduction instrument. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46363... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently subsidize U.S. direct investment abroad. Investments are dynamically inefficient if they consistently generate fewer returns to investors than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne